SEAW Wind Engineering Committee

November 9, 2017

The SEAW Wind Committee recommends that, when appropriate, designers consider an intermediate exposure where minor bodies of water or other similar upwind changes in ground surface roughness allow for the use of exposure less severe than that defined in Section 26.7.3. ASCE 7 commentary Section C27.3.1 provides an upwind fetch based calculation method producing a height dependent intermediate velocity pressure coefficient appropriate for this purpose.

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